409. Longest Palindrome

Posted 2021-01-17 bernieloveslife

Given a string which consists of lowercase or uppercase letters, find the length of the longest palindromes that can be built with those letters.

This is case sensitive, for example "Aa" is not considered a palindrome here.

Note:
Assume the length of given string will not exceed 1,010.

Example:

Input:
"abccccdd"

Output:
7

Explanation:
One longest palindrome that can be built is "dccaccd", whose length is 7.

class Solution:
    def longestPalindrome(self, s):
        """
        :type s: str
        :rtype: int
        """
        dic = {}
        for i in s:
            if i not in dic:
                dic[i] = 1
            else:
                dic[i] += 1
        count = 0
        flag = False
        for key,value in dic.items():
            if value%2==1:
                flag = True
                if value>2:
                    count += value-1
            else:
                count += value
        if flag:
            count += 1
        return count